In the men's 500 meters of speed skating at the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics that ended on the evening of February 12, Beijing time, Chinese teenager Gao Tingyu, who started from group 7, won the gold medal with a record of 34.32 seconds. This is also the first time that a Chinese men's speed skater has won a gold medal at the Winter Olympics. The Chinese delegation finally won the fourth gold medal of the Winter Olympics after the 3rd day of silence.
As a result, on the eighth matchday of the Winter Olympics, the Chinese delegation has already won 4 gold, 3 silver and 1 bronze, which is the best start since the Chinese team participated in the 1980 Lake Placid Winter Olympics for the first time.
The Chinese delegation's previous single Olympic Games won 4 or more gold medals, dating back to the 2010 Vancouver Winter Olympics, where the Chinese short-track speed skating women's team led by world-class celebrities Wang Meng and Zhou Yang overwhelmed the South Korean women's team. She won four gold medals in the women's short track speed skating event, but China's fourth gold medal at that Olympic Games was not won until the 12th day of the opening of the olympic games, four days later than the Winter Olympics. That Winter Olympics, coupled with the gold medals in pair skating won by figure skaters Shen Xue/Zhao Hongbo, the Chinese delegation set a record for the most gold medals in a single Olympic Games.
At the Winter Olympics, the Chinese delegation playing at home is very likely to break the best record of the Vancouver Winter Olympics 12 years ago. After Gao Tingyu won the fourth gold medal for the Chinese delegation, the Chinese team had 8 days to beat the records of the most gold medals in a single Winter Olympics (5 gold at the Vancouver Winter Olympics) and the most medals (11 in Turin and 11 in Vancouver).
We also have Two events, Gu Ailing's freestyle ski slope obstacle course and U-shaped pool, short track speed skating men's 500 meters, men's 5000 meters relay, figure skating Sui Wenjing/Han Cong and other sure gold points. We can indeed expect more from China's ice and snow athletes in the coming days.